Leadership Development as the Pathway to Liberation with Michael Bell

Resistance and Liberation start with ourselves. It is up to us to create a new vision for our future while centering our Blackness throughout. I am excited to launch Season 2 of the R.A.C.E. Podcast with a dear friend, mentor, collaborator, and thought partner, Michael Bell of InPartnership Consulting, Inc. I am humbled and astonished at Michael’s inexhaustible ability to get to the heart of the matter while keeping even the greatest skeptics aboard. His global career reflects a deep bench of racial equity change management efforts. I have watched him move groups to more evolved thinking, deeper connectivity, and collective curiosity about being more intentional around shifting power. I consider myself truly fortunate to kick off this season of the podcast with Michael as my guest. Be prepared to peel the layers of your consciousness back as you listen to our conversation.

Meet Michael Bell

Michael Bell is the president, chief executive officer and co-founder of InPartnership Consulting Inc., an organizational development and strategic change firm specializing in global cultural competence and leadership development. He designs state-of-the-art training, leadership development programs and organizational change initiatives for foundations and progressive non-profits. He is an international consultant and executive coach with special expertise in organizational assessment, team-building and mentoring programs. He is an expert in helping organizations understand their cultures and their need for transformational learning.

Michael designs & facilitates The President’s Forum on Racial Equity in Philanthropy for Keecha Harris and Associates, aimed at supporting equity-centered leadership for many of the largest philanthropic foundation leaders in the United States and beyond. Through his own company, Michael leads the Racial Equity Innovation Lab, which convenes senior leaders to offer peers support, expertise, encouragement, and rigor as they upgrade and implement comprehensive organizational Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and specifically, Racial Equity programs. Michael is a student/practitioner of Forward Stance, a series of physical practices based on the belief that our capacity for movement building rests not only on political alignment, strategy, or opportunity for collaboration but on the capacity to embody a resilient stance and move as one. Forward Stance is a mind-body approach that gets us out of our heads—into our bodies—and supports our movement to do just that.

Michael is a Black, Queer parent of three young adults, and a lifelong meditator. For the past 10 years, he’s been part of an established meditation community for queer me

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